Take a look at this website, in times when local authorities are having to examine their resources its great to see that environmental conservation is still a priority. Well done Plymouth City Council http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/wildflowermeadows

From New Scientist Gulls tucking in to discarded food or flocking around landfills has become a familiar sight. Now data from the Pacific north-west of Canada spanning 149 years has shown that substituting fish with less nutritious food is linked to population declines and lower fertility in glaucous-winged gulls (Larus glaucescens) a close relative of the herring and lesser black-backed gull. Louise Blight from the University of British Columbia and her colleagues looked at 270 gulls’ feather samples from museums, taken […]